Personal Life
Moore grew up on Castleview Road opposite Stormont's Parliament Buildings, off the Upper Newtownards Road in east Belfast, as one of five children of a promoter named Bobby and housewife, Winnie, but he left the city as a teenager, because all was not well in their household. His parents parted a year later. He left just as The Troubles were starting in Northern Ireland.
Aiming to become a musician, he moved to Dublin at the age of 16 and joined Skid Row, a band that then included Phil Lynott. Moore would later re-join Lynott in 1973, when he first joined Thin Lizzy after the departure of founding member Eric Bell, and again in 1977. (Lynott also played on Moore's 1985 album Run for Cover before Lynott's death the following year.) He moved to England in 1970 and remained there, apart from two short periods in America. In 2002, he bought a five-bedroom detached Edwardian house in Hove, just west of Brighton, Sussex, to be near his sons, Jack and Gus, from his former marriage, which had lasted from 1985 to 1993. Since 1997, he was living with his partner, an artist named Jo, and their two daughters Lily (b. 1999) and Saoirse. His residence was reported to be on Vallance Gardens in Hove, East Sussex.
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